Taiwan
On
this page you will find a map of Taiwan
and some information about the country. The map is a detail of a Map
of the World published by Planet
Poster Editons in Germany.
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Official name of country: Taiwan
Official script of the country: Chinese/Chinesisch
Capital: Taibei (= Taipei, Taipeh).
Number
of inhabitats: see www.citypopulation.de.
Map
of Taiwan with surrounding
areas. - Landkarte von Taiwan.
- Mapa de Taiwán. - Carte de Taïwan.
Taiwan's capital is Taipei (= Taibei), which is also the biggest city of the country. Flights to Taiwan usually go to Taipei. Other important cities are Taizhong and Gaoxiong (= Kaohsiung). Taiwan is in reality a completely independent country, also ecomonically, but is not officially recognized by China. China abuses its power to prevent Taiwan from becoming a member of the United Nations, and does not allow Taiwanese sportists to participate at the Olympic games and other international events. Usually Taiwanese athletes have to qualify in the US team, which of course, is not so easy.
The official language of Taiwan is Chinese. The Chinese script currently used in Taiwan is slightly different from the one used in China, because Taiwan did not accept automatically all script reforms of the Chinese. Perhaps because the Taiwanese were not invited to participate in the decisions. In our map we have quoted the easier reformed spellings of the names of the Taiwanese localities.
Chinese is spoken in Taiwan mainly since the time when Chiang Kai-chek and his troops flew from China to Taiwan, when they escaped the Chinese communists, and took the power in Taiwan. The native language of Taiwan is Taiwanese. This language is today in the minority and has no official status.
Tourism is of lower importance in Taiwan. We would appreciate more detailed information, also about tourism, flights, or individual tours to Taiwan.
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of the World with original scripts (original size 70 x 100
cm), from which the detailed map shown above has been cut out. The numbers of
city inhabitants and vegetational zones were researched by hand for every country,
by using the sources listed below. This procedure prevented the map from containing
traditional errors provoked by simply copying such information from previous
maps.
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on which the information contained in this map is based:
The
vegetational base map was aligned with satellite pictures from Google
Earth.
The
official names of the countries are quite well researched at www.geonames.de.
Also here you can find information on the geography of many countries: www.geographixx.de.
The
numbers of inhabitants of the cities were taken from www.citypopulation.de.
And
the mountain peak altitudes were largely derived form www.peakbagger.com.
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